Toy pistol



(No Model.)

R. F. GARTY & W. A. DOWNES. TOY PISTOL.

No. 545,345 Patented Aug. 27, 1895.

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TOY PISTOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,345, dated August 27, 1895.

Application filed June 15', 1895. Serial No. 552,963- (No modehl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT F. CARTY, a citizen of Canada, and WILLIAM A. DOWNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of \Vayne, State'of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toy Pistols; and we declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which 'form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to toy pistols, and has for its object an improvement in that class of pistols in which the detonating paper wafershaped cap is exploded, the especial object being to provide a magazine into which a number of the paper caps can be loaded preparatory to exploding them and a pistol into which the magazine can be inserted and by which the caps can be exploded successively until the magazine is empty.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation. Fig. 2 shows the magazine in perspective. Flg. 3 shows the pistol in rear elevation.

A indicates the barrel, and B the grip. The barrel projects both to the front and to the rear of the grip.

0 indicates the trigger-case and is a prolongation of the grip under the barrel and on the forward side of the grip.

The trigger is indicated at D, and is a lever hung on a pin d, having the outward projection at for the finger. The upwardly-extended projection 61 engages with a rack on the under side of the magazine, and a forward engaging-lug d engages with the spring 0, which is held on a pin 0 and a notch o in the easing. Above the trigger is a hammer H, which turns on pins h and is pulled backward and a face 7L2 raised, preparatory to making its stroke against the cap, either by the ear h or by the rack-teeth on the magazine M. A spring h is put under tension when the face of the hammer is raised, and when the hammer is released throws it violently back to explode the cap.

On each side of the pistol-barrel A and its rear extension at and within the barrel is a groove which serves to guide the magazine as it is pushed along through the barrel by the actuating impulses of the trigger D. The hole through the trigger D is oval, and the pin 01 is round, thus permitting a little play of the trigger on its pin and enabling the upper end of the trigger to pass back along the teeth of thelower rack and to rise and engage behind the teeth successively. The spring 0 holds the trigger with its upper end in contact with the rack. The magazine M is in the form of a plate or bar of a width suitable to engage in the grooves g g, and to pass freely through the barrel from rear to front. On the under side of the magazine are a number of ratchetteeth 9', adapted to engage the projection d of the trigger, and on the upper side or along one edge of the magazine are teeth me. On the upper side also there. are a number of cavities n, which are used as receptacles for the common detonating-cap, these caps consisting of a thin wafer-shaped particle of detonating compound held between disks of thin paper. The upper side of the magazine M is provided with receptacles or cavities into which the caps are placed, and it is also provided with a number of teeth m, which engage successively, as the magazine travels forward, with the prong p of the hammer H, and raise the hammer until the tooth has passed under the prong p, when the hammer is violently thrown down by the spring h Whenvthe magazine has passed through under the hammer it is pulled out from the barrel and reloaded again and inserted at the other end to be used again.

A special feature of this pistol is that the ordinary cap found on sale in stores and described above can be used in this magazine, and, further, the explosion takes place entirely within the barrel, thus obviating any danger from flying particles of the detonating compound.

WVhat we claim is- 1. In a toy'pistol, the combination of a barre], a magazine provided with a rack on its under side, and-a rack on its upper side, a

trigger adapted to engage the lower rack and to strike against the caps carried thereby, push the magazine forward, a hammer adaptsubstantially as described. ed to be raised by the upper rack, anda spring In testimony whereof we sign this specifiadapted to drive the hammer downward, subcation in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 stantially as described.

2. In a toy pistol the combination of a bar- ROBERT F. OARTY. rel, a magazine adapted to be advanced WILLIAM A. DOWNES. through the barrel, and provided with recep- NVitnesses: tacles for detonating caps, a hammer adapted VIRGINIA M. CLOUGH,

10 to be alternately raised by the magazine and F. OLOUGH 

